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Title: Guardian of the Dead
Author: Karen Healey
Publisher: Little Brown
Release Date: April 2010
Donated by: Karen Healey

In less than a day I had been harassed, enchanted, shouted at, cried on, and clawed. I’d been cold, scared, dirty, exhausted, hungry, and miserable. And up until now, I’d been mildly impressed with my ability to cope.

At her boarding school in New Zealand, Ellie Spencer is like any ordinary teen: she hangs out with her best friend, Kevin; obsesses over her crush on a mysterious boy; and her biggest worry is her paper deadline. Then everything changes: In the foggy woods near the school, something ancient and deadly is waiting.

Tour List (Sign Ups Closed)

1. Alyssa (CA) Rc’d 4/22, Mailed 4/28
   DC: 0309 2880 0001 3947 1290
2. Danielle (CA) Rc’d 4/30, Mailed 5/5
   DC: 0308 0730 0001 6591 1664
3. Cynthia (TX) Rc’d 5/07, Mailed 5/14
   DC: 0309 3220 0000 1248 1607
4. Kristen H. (IL) Rc’d 5/20, Mail by 5/27
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 4407 2991
5. Christina (OH) Rc’d 6/01, Mailed 6/07
   DC: 03093220000159150404
6. Tania (PA) Rc’d 6/11, Mailed 6/12
   DC: 03081400000234936634
7. Steph Su (PA) Rc’d 6/15, Mail by 6/18
   DC: 03093220000106866990
8. WillowRaven (NH) Rc’d 6/23, Mail by 6/30
9. Jenn (VA) Rc’d 6/30, Mail by 7/12 (extension given)
   DC: 03100480000193758173

Title: A Love Story: Starring My Dead Best Friend
Author: Emily Horner
Publisher: Dial
Pub. Date: June 10, 2010

For months, Cass Meyer has heard her best friend Julia, a wannabe Broadway composer, whispering about a top-secret project. Then Julia is killed in a sudden car accident, and while Cass is still reeling from her death, Julia’s boyfriend and her other drama friends make it their mission to bring to fruition the nearly-completed secret project: a musical about an orphaned ninja princess entitled Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad.
Cass isn’t one of the drama people. She doesn’t feel at home with Julia’s drama friends, and she doesn’t see a place for her in the play. Things only get worse when she finds out that Heather Galloway, the girl who made her miserable all through middle school, has been cast as the ninja princess.
Cass can’t take a summer of swallowing her pride and painting sets, so she decides to follow her original plan for a cross-country road trip with Julia. Even if she has a touring bicycle instead of a driver’s license, and even if Julia’s ashes are coming along in Tupperware.
Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad is a story about friendship. About love. About traveling a thousand miles just to find yourself. About making peace with the past, and making sense of it. And it’s a story about the bloodiest high school musical one quiet suburb has ever seen.

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1. Valerie (MI) Rc’d 4/13, Mailed 4/21
   DC: 03080660000015744710
2. Jess (IL) Rc’d 4/26, Mailed 5/05 (extension given, car accident)
   DC: 0309 1830 0001 7418 0902
3. Kristen H (IL) Rc’d 5/06, Mailed 5/15 (extension given, multi-book)
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 4406 3609
4. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 5/21, Mailed 5/26
   DC: 0496 9002 4390 0704 0461
5. Jamie (LA) Rc’d 5/27, Mailed 6/5
   No DC Available
6. Amber (MO) Rc’d 6/10, Mailed 6/17
   DC: 03082690000143182830
7. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 6/25, Mailed 7/1
   DC: 4204 9006 9104 9690 0790 7014 0924 07

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Title: Sleepless
Author: Cyn Balog
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Release Date: July, 2010
Donated by: Sharon

Eron DeMarchelle isn’t supposed to feel this connection. He is a Sandman, a supernatural being whose purpose is to seduce his human charges to sleep. Though he can communicate with his charges in their dreams, he isn’t encouraged to do so. After all, becoming too involved in one human’s life could prevent him from helping others get their needed rest.

But he can’t deny that he feels something for Julia, a lonely girl with fiery red hair and sad dreams. Just weeks ago, her boyfriend died in a car accident, and Eron can tell that she feels more alone than ever. Eron was human once too, many years ago, and he remembers how it felt to lose the one he loved. In the past, Eron has broken rules to protect Julia, but now, when she seems to need him more than ever, he can’t reach her. Eron’s time as a Sandman is coming to a close, and his replacement doesn’t seem to care about his charges. Worse, Julia is facing dangers she doesn’t recognize, and Eron, as he transitions back to being human, may be the only one who can save her. . . .

Even once they’ve become human again, Sandmen are forbidden to communicate with their charges. But Eron knows he won’t be able to forget Julia. Will he risk everything for a chance to be with the girl he loves?

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1. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 4/13, Mailed 4/22 (multi-book extension)
   DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 7921
2. Maria (NY) Rc’d 4/23, Mailed 4/30
   DC: 0308 2690 0002 0896 6191
3. Gail (MA) Rc’d 5/03, Mailed 5/11
   DC: 9101805213907406012863
4. Kate (CT) Rc’d 5/14, Mailed 5/18
   DC: 9102 1501 3471 1182 1062 41
5. Jenn (VA) Rc’d 5/22, Mailed 5/25
   DC: 03093220000030451088
6. Celia (VA) Rc’d 5/26, Mailed 06/03
   DC: 0310 0480 0002 7888 9181
7. Steph Su (PA) Rc’d 6/5, Mailed 6/12
   DC: 03100480000206689876
8. Andrea (FL) Rc’d 6/15, Mailed 6/22
   DC: 9102785091401565413751
9. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 6/25, Mailed 6/29
   DC: 496 9002 4390 0704 0980
10. Stacy (TX) Rc’d 7/1, Mailed 7/8
    DC: 03100480000008806303
11. Carol (TX) Rc’d 7/12, Mailed 7/26
    DC: 9102 7850 9140 1618 9346 15
12. Melissa (UT) Rc’d 7/30, Mailed 8/6
    DC: 0310 1230 0001 7642 3887
13. Kristen (IL) Rc’d 8/11, Mailed 8/19
    DC: 0310 0480 0001 3353 4201

Title: Wayfarer
Author: R.J. Anderson
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date:  June 2010
Donated by: Sharon

The faeries of the Oak are dying, and it’s up to a lone faery named Linden to find a way to restore their magic. Linden travels bravely into dangerous new territory, where she enlists the help of an unlikely friend—a human named Timothy. Soon they discover something much worse than the Oakenfolk’s loss of magic: a potent evil that threatens the fate of all faeries. In a fevered, desperate chase across the country, Timothy and Linden risk their lives to seek an ancient power before it’s too late to save everyone they love.

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1. Carol (TX) Rc’d 4/13, Mailed 4/19
   DC: 0308 2690 0001 6746 6893
2. Karin (OK) Rc’d 4/23, Mailed 4/30
   DC: 9405 5036 9930 0220 6231 01
3. Drea (IL) Rc’d 5/03, Mailed 5/10
   DC: 03091830000174263438
4. Katie (IL) Rc’d 5/11, Mailed 5/17
   DC: 0309 2880 0000 8693 3377
5. Kristen (IL) Rc’d 5/18, Mailed 5/25
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 4412 7561
6. Crystal (NC) Rc’d 5/29, Mailed 6/8
   DC: 9102 1480 0860 0852 9576 54
7. Laurie (NY) Rc’d 6/14, Mail by 6/23 (multi-book extension)
   DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 8034

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Title: Birthmarked

Author: Caragh O’Brien

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Pub. Date: 3/30/2010

Plot:

After climate change, on the north shore of Unlake Superior, a dystopian world is divided between those who live inside the wall, and those, like sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone, who live outside. It’s Gaia’s job to “advance” a quota of infants from poverty into the walled Enclave, until the night one agonized mother objects, and Gaia’s parents are arrested.

Badly scarred since childhood, Gaia is a strong, resourceful loner who begins to question her society. As Gaia’s efforts to save her parents take her within the wall, she herself is arrested and imprisoned.

Fraught with difficult moral choices and rich with intricate layers of codes, BIRTHMARKED explores a colorful, cruel, eerily familiar world where one girl can make all the difference, and a real hero makes her own moral code.

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1. Sarah (WA) Rc’d 4/7, Mailed 4/14
   DC: 0309 3220 0001 7710 1891
2. Danielle (CA) Rc’d 4/19, Mailed 4/27
   DC: 0308 1400 0001 1935 0166
3. Allison (AZ) Rc’d 4/29, Mailed 05/08
   DC: 0307 1790 0004 0398 6362
4. Melissa (UT) Rc’d 5/10, Mailed  5/15
   DC: 03093220000142969082
5. Andrea (LA) Rc’d 5/20, Mailed 5/26
   DC: 0496 9002 4390 0704 0454
6. Kristen H. (IL) Rc’d 5/28, Mailed 6/5
   No DC- hand delivered
7. Jess (IL) Rc’d 6/07, Mailed 6/15
   DC: 0309 1830 0001 7418 2746
8. Kathy (IN) Rc’d 6/17, Mailed 6/25
   DC: 0310 0480 0000 8054 6890
9. Andrea (FL) Rc’d 6/29, Mailed 7/6
   DC: 102128882300218705344
10. WillowRaven (NH) Rc’d 7/10, Mailed 7/16
    DC: 03092880000229514456

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Title: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Author: John Green and David Levithan
Publisher: Dutton
Release Date: April  2010
Donated by: Karin

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.

Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and David Levithan’s collaborative novel is brimming with a double helping of the heart and humor that have won both them legions of faithful fans.

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1. TX, Mariah Rc’d 3/24, Mailed 3/31
   DC: 9405503699300190709591
2. LA, Andrea Rc’d 4/6, Mailed by 4/8
   DC: 0404 1016 0070 0703 9301
3. PA, Lauren Rc’d 4/12, Mailed 4/17
   DC: 03092880000125905211
4. NY, Carrie Rc’d 4/19, Mailed 4/27
   DC: 03092880000065821794
5. NY, Laurie Rc’d 4/29, Mailed 05/06
   DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 7952
6. MA, Meg Rc’d 5/15, Mailed 5/24
   DC: 0309 2880 0001 9138 1674
7. CT, Jen Rc’d 5/27, Mail by 6/5
   DC: 0306 0320 0004 5066 2843
8. VA, Jenn Rc’d 6/07, Mailed 6/11
   DC: 03091830000241039003
9. MI, Sara Rc’d 6/16, Mail by 6/23

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Title: Everlasting

Author: Angie Frazier

Publisher: Scholastic

Pub. Date: June 1^st, 2010

Donated by: Sara

Sailing aboard her father’s trade ship is all seventeen-year-old Camille Rowen has ever wanted. But as a girl of society in 1855 San Francisco, her future is set: marry a man she doesn’t love, or condemn herself and her father to poverty.

On her final voyage before the wedding, the stormy arms of the Tasman Sea claim her father, and a terrible family secret is revealed. A secret intertwined with a fabled map, the mother Camille has long believed dead, and an ancient stone that wields a dangerous—and alluring—magic.

The only person Camille can depend on is Oscar, a handsome young sailor whom she is undeniably drawn to. Torn between trusting her instincts and keeping her promises to her father, Camille embarks on a perilous quest into the Australian wilderness to find the enchanted stone. As she and Oscar elude murderous bushrangers and unravel Camille’s father’s lies, they come closer to making the ultimate decision of who—and what—matters most.

Beautifully written and feverishly paced, Everlasting is an unforgettable journey of passion, secrecy, and adventure.

Mailed 3/12 DC: 03092880000175517877

1. IL, Katie Rc’d 03/15, Mailed 03/22
   Dc: 0307 1790 0001 2538 4767
2. IL, Kristen Rc’d 03/23, Mailed 03/30
   DC: 03093220000091226618
3. MO, Amber Rc’d 4/1, Mailed 4/08
   DC: 03082690000143182649
4. UT, Melissa Rc’d 04/12, Mailed 04/19
   DC: 03092880000196627050
5. AZ, Allison Rc’d 4/23, Mailed 5/01
   DC: 0308 1400 00000230 5655
6. LA, Andrea F Rc’d 5/08, Mailed 5/14
   DC: 0496 9002 4390 0703 9984.
7. NC, Jennifer G Rc’d 5/14, Mailed 5/24
   DC: 03093220000115603142
8. VA, Jenn Rc’d 5/26, Mailed 5/28
   DC: 03080660000086275236
9. MA, Megan Rc’d 06/01, Mailed 06/09
   DC: 0309 3220 0001 4052 4559
10. NY, Laurie T Rc’d 6/14, Mailed 6/21
    DC: 0306 1070 0001 2621 8799
11. NY, Keyona Rc’d 6/24, Mailed 7/1
    DC: 420465309102150134711238505691
12. IN, The Brain Lair Rc’d 7/12, Mailed 7/26
    DC: 0309 1830 0000 7147 0489

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